Corsair ECC Ram

[faytleingod11]

I'm looking to build a nas to complement my gaming build, and I'm looking to use only asus and corsair components. I've found all the applicable main components except ram. Does corsair make a ddr4 ecc ram? Preferably with a heat sync like the led models if possible

[Oshino Shinobu]

Corsair is primarily a gaming/consumer component provider. As such, they don't make any ECC RAM. 

 

For DDR4 ECC, you're pretty much limited to Crucial, Kingston and some Samsung offerings. 

 

EDIT: You're also not going to find any ECC RAM with a fancy heatsink. Most ECC RAM is bare as the heatsink does very little for RAM and they're intended to go into servers where looks often don't matter. You can buy aftermarket heatsinks for RAM, though. 

[manikyath]

just get a bunch of kingston valueram ECC sticks.

[Guest]

19 minutes ago, faytleingod11 said:

I'm looking to build a nas to complement my gaming build

Maybe I am just stupid... But why not add a few HDD's in your gaming rig? Should not impact performance? Or do you intend to connect moar devices to the NAS.

[faytleingod11]

1 minute ago, Dutch-stoner said:

Maybe I am just stupid... But why not add a few HDD's in your gaming rig? Should not impact performance? Or do you intend to connect moar devices to the NAS.

Part of the reason is so I can have the two systems seperate for trouble shooting reasons. Also I want server type components to just make sure I'm getting the best kind of performance. The other part is I'm making a desk inspired by the ultimate diy desk pc, but I'm not doing liquid cooling, so I need something to take it's place

 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, faytleingod11 said:

Also I want server type components to just make sure I'm getting the best kind of performance.

I think it's alot faster when you put your storage in the same computer as where you use it. NAS is in my opinion only usefull if you have MULTIPLE devices which need to acces data. So I personaly think this point is invalid.

 

If you want server grade components... The only REALLY important parts in a NAS server would be the storage. And you can get enterprise edition mass storage, and just connect it to your gaming rig.

 

If you want to fill up a desk pc thingy, you don't need a second computer/NAS to fill up space. You could get one of them power loss thingies. (can't remember the name) If your power gets turned off for some sort of reason, you have a built-in power bank in your desk. Could be nice, and better compaired to a NAS in your situation.

 

Personaly I think that ECC for an NAS which is only being used by an gaming rig, is pointless overkill.

[faytleingod11]

2 minutes ago, Dutch-stoner said:

I think it's alot faster when you put your storage in the same computer as where you use it. NAS is in my opinion only usefull if you have MULTIPLE devices which need to acces data. So I personaly think this point is invalid.

 

If you want server grade components... The only REALLY important parts in a NAS server would be the storage. And you can get enterprise edition mass storage, and just connect it to your gaming rig.

 

If you want to fill up a desk pc thingy, you don't need a second computer/NAS to fill up space. You could get one of them power loss thingies. (can't remember the name) If your power gets turned off for some sort of reason, you have a built-in power bank in your desk. Could be nice, and better compaired to a NAS in your situation.

 

Personaly I think that ECC for an NAS which is only being used by an gaming rig, is pointless overkill.

I see what you mean. I already have a ups that's going in the leg on one side, but that is a good idea. But it's not just my gaming pc that would access it. It would be the HTPC, my work pc out in the garage, and my wifes laptop. Right now I'm running a 1.5tb hdd running through my router as network storage. I'm planning on using the 4tb IronWolf HDD from Seagate at any rate.

[Oshino Shinobu]

6 minutes ago, Dutch-stoner said:

I think it's alot faster when you put your storage in the same computer as where you use it. NAS is in my opinion only usefull if you have MULTIPLE devices which need to acces data. So I personaly think this point is invalid.

 

If you want server grade components... The only REALLY important parts in a NAS server would be the storage. And you can get enterprise edition mass storage, and just connect it to your gaming rig.

 

If you want to fill up a desk pc thingy, you don't need a second computer/NAS to fill up space. You could get one of them power loss thingies. (can't remember the name) If your power gets turned off for some sort of reason, you have a built-in power bank in your desk. Could be nice, and better compaired to a NAS in your situation.

 

Personaly I think that ECC for an NAS which is only being used by an gaming rig, is pointless overkill.

Depends what NAS OS and file system is being used. A flipped bit or error in RAM can corrupt an entire ZFS pool, rendering all of that data unusable, even if it's in RAID. If appropriate backups are being made, it may be salvageable, but if only one backup is stored at a time and the corruption isn't caught fast enough, it could be a matter of losing everything. In that sense, ECC RAM can be very important. 

 

As for the actual storage, the importance of the features really depends on the use case. If it's going to only be a handful of drives in a ZFS filesystem environment, not using hardware RAID, then NAS grade drives aren't all that important. Vibration compensation won't make much of a difference if the case is decent and features like TLER will go entirely unused, pretty much making the extra cost of the hardware pointless. 

 

EDIT: A NAS also presents an opportunity to run various services, like DLNA and media streaming servers within the NAS OS, meaning that the gaming PC can be turned off while the server and services remain running in a lower power draw system.